RE: NOLA/COMMON S06

I think we had quite a raging debate on whether spring or fall would do 
lately.  But, I too, forget how that went.  Being as COMMON is, what, just 
above half of what it was in it's heyday, I don't see it getting too 
crowded.  However the smaller attendance does increase the venue options.

But at our company, we'll send one or two people to each common.  Cutting 
it down to once a year would just cut out how often people would get their 
rotation.  No, we wouldn't start sending more per conference.

Cutting down to one a year might encourage yet one more company to try to 
get a chunk of the pie by hosting 'yet another midrange conference'. 
There's already plenty.  We limit ourselves to COMMON and occasionally IBM 
Technical Conference.


Rob Berendt